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As you stared into the abyss, the abyss stared back at you. For certain beings, the distance between dimensions was not much of a problem—Sogo Doma had already understood this the moment he saw the XX lady...
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Yamazaki's gaudy appearance was indeed extremely gaudy. However, in a country where only violent organizations were qualified to get tattoos, a gaudy body could make people feel intimidated.
That was why members of groups like the Yama X Group or the X Dragon Association could scare a whole crowd stiff just by showing their tattoos at a bathhouse—there had even been variety shows filmed around this premise: several tattooed men would enter a public bath to see how others reacted, and the results proved that the more tattoos someone had, the more people feared them.
Legitimized violent organizations were no joke. Unless there was a necessary conflict of interests, even the Shinomiya Family did not want to provoke such violent groups. Perhaps that was why those wearing shoes feared those barefoot, while the spotless feared tattooed men...
But what about the Kondo Group? Other than the somewhat gaudy Yamazaki, its members had nothing on their bodies. They looked weak and unimposing, yet they had driven the Yama X Group, the X Dragon Association, and the rest out of their territory!
And it was precisely after the Kondo Group emerged that tattooed men started keeping a low profile in bathhouses. "You little brats..."
"Whoa, tattoos as gaudy as Yamazaki's..." The bratty members of the Kondo Group mocked them. "They look so vicious..."
"Bast—"
"I wonder if they're all bark and no bite?" The brats were unafraid. "Still, those tattoos really do look scary. I just don't get why Captain Sogo and Vice Captain Hijikata don't have any tattoos."
"Idiot!" another brat said.